The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-09
Weekly News Summary.


her weekly market day.
COLCHESTER voted to hold the town cleo
tons in future at Winoosk.
EDITOR SHANKs of the Londonderry
SITTER has been released on bail.
The Methodsts of Quechee are agitating
the subject of building church.
WIN. LAMPHERE of Hartford had several
ribs broken by tree falling OF him.
DIR. LOUIS MAS of Boston will be the solo
pianist for the coming festival at Rutland.
THE Swanton Courier celebrates its tenth
anniversary by coming out in " high color"
JOE CAMEAu, machinist, of Lyndonville
was killed by the Montreal express at New
port.
COLONEL FRANKLIN FAIRBANKS of St.
Johnsburv has gone to Florida for short
sojourn.
AUDITOR POWELL has returned to Rich
ford from his western trip, in good health
and spirits.
The steamers "vermont" and "will-
Jams " are being thoroughly overhauled at
Burlington.
II. NJ. STANTON of St. Adams has gone to
southern California, with view to building
up his health.
THE town meetings in Charleston and
Walden were adjourned one week on ac-
count of bad roads
Mrs CHARLES p. HARRIS of Rutland is
still quite ill from the effects of her injuries
on the toboggan chute.
GENERAL w. w. HENRY was elected
mayor of Burlington by 315 majority over
Z. NJ Sutton, democrat.
HIRAM L. HURLBUT, an old resident of
Grand Isle, died Monday morning, in the
eightieth year of his age.
If the town of Chester will erect suita-
BILE building DR.. Whiting will give $4,000
towards public library.
THE congressional appropriation for the
channel between Grand Isle and North
Hero was reduced to $4,000.
SATURDAY made 100 days of continuous
seighing in Rutland and vicinity. There
have been thrty-nine snow storms.
QUITE number from st. Adams will To-
cate with the Vermont colony that leaves
Brandon and vicinity April for Dakota
FIJI. FISHER has been appointed cashier
of the Howard National Bank of Burlng-
ton and Frank Kendall assistant cashier.
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY of Rochester
failed to meet his appointments the last
two Sundays in February by reason of
sickness
THE Rutland Herald says: "The care OF
the poor in Burlington cost the city but
$1,000 last year, while Rutland dispensed
over $4,000"
odist Conference is to be held at ST. Johns
bury, commencing April u. Bishop Wal
den is to preside.
MAJOR JOSIAH CIRCUIT of Derby will de-
liver the Memorial day address at Airing
ton and Hon. Henry c. Bates of st. Johns
bury at Bradford.
FIFTEEN inches of snow fell at Brattleboro
on Sunday, being more than in any one
storm during the winter. Many towns re-
port the same amount.
SIX towns in Windham county have
elected women as superintendent of schools
Athens, Brookline, Grafton, Putney Will
mington and Windham.
EDWARD PERKINsoN, aged twenty-five, Of
st. Adams, brakeman on the New London
Northern railroad, fell under the cars last
week and was fatally injured.
L. A. DELIsLE of st. Adams, while clear
ing away snow, fell from second-story
window, breaking and dislocating his wrist
cutting his nose and injuring his hip.
THE strong wind which prevailed Sunday
night piled the snow on the track of the
Burlington & Lamoille road in drifts which
were in some instances ten feet high.
DR.. E. A. LEWIS, who keeps the only
strictly temperance drugstore in Rutland
was elected county liquor commissioner
over DR.. j. d. Hanrahan by a good ma
jority.
FREDERICK GossELIN the blind soldier O
St. Johnsbury who received the 81 ,00(
pension not long ago, has made the Righ
Rev. Bishop DeGoesbriand the trustee o.
his estate.
THE senate confirmed the nominations o.
Postmasters George w. Beckwith at Bur
lington, G. H. Reynolds at Swanton, w. B
Wall at West Randolph and A. M. Dckey
at Bradford.
THERE are SO practicing physicians il
the state, of whom eghty-one are homeo
pathic Rutland has the largest number
(twenty-fve) and Burlington is next, witt
twenty-four.
In Woodford since the first snow-storm, il
the early part of November, there have beer
forty-fve, an average of nearly three
week, and more than 10 inches of snow ha'
fallen in the mountains.
REV. MoNsoN A. WILCOX, formerly pasto
of the First Baptist church at Burlington
but now of Oswego n. Y, has been elected
president of the Kalamazoo (Mich,) College
at salary of $1,000 year,
In Ripton Arthur Manning, boy abou
thirteen years old, got vexed at Jennie
Varney while at school and struck at he
with knife, making an ugly cash on TIN
back of her hand. He was taken to thu
reform school.
A MEETING of the butter-tub makers o
Vermont and northern New York was hel,
in St. Adams last week for the purpose o
forming an association and establishing
uniform schedule of prices to prevent ruin
GUS competition.
THE will of Abraham Stearns of Wood
stock beQueathes 8 900 to ST. James church
the income of which is to 90 toward the SUI
port of preaching and $500 to the parochia
fund of the diocese of Vermont, the incom
thereof to be used for missionary purposes
SUIT has been brought against the Centra
Vermont railroad by Mary Murphy TO RI
cover $4,000 damages for personal injure
received in the Hartford accident, 1t
probable the company will remove the cas-
into the United States circuit court an
make test one OF it.
THE steel hull of the steamer "Chateal
CAV" of the Champlain Transportatio
Company is being built by Harlan & Ho
lingsworth at Wilmington, Del. 1t will
set up there, taken apart and transporte
to Burlington, where IL will be again set Il
and ready for the boilers and engine b
October |.
The following patents have been granite
to Vermonters William f. Cumming
Bradford, automatic car-brake: Charles /
Emerson, Yonkers, n. Y, assignor to JOIN
son, Emerson x Co., Burlington, toboggaI
Hazen j. Batchelder, Norwich, assignor
Victor Horseshoe company Concord, n. III
machine for rolling horseshoe bars; Fran
p. Remission, ST. Johnsbury, thill coupling
THE West Rutland marble companie
answered the request of their employ,
for increased wages last week Wednesda.
telling them that the state of business mad
it impossible for them to grant it. Many